FF:CJA003 Old Church Slavonic I - Course Information

CJA003 Old Church Slavonic for the Students of Czech, Pt. I

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Ilona Janyšková, CSc. (seminar tutor)
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petr Malčík (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Olga Navrátilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jana Villnow Komárková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts

Timetable of Seminar Groups

CJA003/A: Tue 9:10–10:45 zrusena M25, I. Janyšková
CJA003/B: Tue 10:50–12:25 zrusena M12, I. Janyšková
CJA003/C: Tue 14:10–15:45 C41, P. Malčík
CJA003/D: Wed 14:10–15:45 U13, P. Malčík
CJA003/E: Mon 17:30–19:05 M22, J. Villnow Komárková
CJA003/F: Wed 7:30–9:05 M11, O. Navrátilová

Prerequisites

Students are recommended to attend simultaneously the lecture CJBB121 Úvod do slavistiky I.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (3)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-MA)

Course objectives

The seminar is focused on Proto-Slavonic as a common predecessor of Slavonic languages and on tendencies of development on the individual Slavonic languages. The stress is on the development of Proto- Slavonic phonology and morphology as well as on the origin and development of Slavonic script. At the end of the course students should be able to reconstruct the Proto-Slavonic form of a word, to transform the reconstructed Proto-Slavonic form into forms existing in the individual Slavonic languages, to decline Old Church Slavonic nouns, to read Old Church Slavonic texts written in Cyrillic, to provide an elementary philological interpretation and transliteration.

Syllabus

• 1. Slavonic studies past and present. Classification of Slavonic languages. 2. The rise of the first written Slavonic language and its script. 3. Causes of language change (divergence and convergence), comparative method. 4. Nostratic hypothesis, Indo-European theory, disintegration of Proto-Indo-European language. 5. Balto-Slavic proto-language (Balto-Slavic language community?), Proto-Slavic. 6. The main Phonological-laws of Proto-Slavic. 7. Palatalization. 8. "Law of Open Syllables" (change of syllabic structure: from lower to higher sonority). 9. Prosody of Proto-Slavic. Less of Vowel quantity. 10. The rise of dialectal differences of Proto-Slavic. 11. Phonological system of Old Church Slavonic. 12. Phonological changes of late Proto-Slavic (contraction, loss of weak yers, denasalisation). 13. Slavic grammar categories. Declension of nouns.

Literature

• VEČERKA, Radoslav. Staroslověnština v kontextu slovanských jazyků (Old Church Slavonic in the context of Slavonic languages). Olomouc; Praha: Univerzita Palackého; Euroslavica, 2006, 273 pp. Univerzita Palackého Olomouc. ISBN 80-244-0889-9. info
• Pallasová, Eva. Texty ke studiu jazyka staroslověnského. 1. vyd. Brno : Vydavatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 2004.
• VEČERKA, Radoslav. Staroslověnské texty. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1996, 195 pp. ISBN 80-210-0818-0. info
• VEČERKA, Radoslav. Základy slovanské filologie a staroslověnštiny [Večerka, 2002]. 5. nezměn. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2002, 112 s. ISBN 80-201-2961-7. info
• VEČERKA, Radoslav. Staroslověnština. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 231 s. info
• PETR, Jan. Základy slavistiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 143 s. info
• KURZ, Josef. Učebnice jazyka staroslověnského. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1969, 233 s., 4. info
• LAMPRECHT, Arnošt. Praslovanština. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1987, 196 s. URL info
• HORÁLEK, Karel. Úvod do studia slovanských jazyků. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1955, 487 s. info

Teaching methods

The methods used include lectures, class discussions, homework, reading texts in Old Church Slavonic and assigned scholarly materials, drills. The seminars continuously check students’ abilities, knowledge and skills acquired during their individual preparations. Electronic study materials in a separate module are a regular part of the course.

Assessment methods

To receive the graded credit, 1. regular attendance and active articipation in classes is required, ie. maximum of two absence (during the term, students’ knowledge is checked in both oral and written forms), 2. complete also the e-learning module(it is a necessary prerequisite to the final test), 3. it is necessary to succeed in the final test; the test consists of open questions and is based on the topics dealt with (see above); to succeed, it is necessary to reach at least 70% of the points.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• CJA005 Old Church Slavonic for the Students of Czech, Pt. II

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Zápočet se uděluje na základě úspěšného zvládnutí písemného testu.
The course is taught annually.

Information about innovation of course.

This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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